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best Geriatric Psychiatry in vizag

Geriatric psychiatrists undergo massive speciality training. They are capable of addres

Geriatric psychiatry, also known as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatrics, or psychiatry of old age, is a sector of medicine and a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of neurodegenerative, cognitive impairment, and mental disorders in people of old age. Geriatric psychiatry is a specialty focused on preventing, evaluating, diagnosing, and treating emotional and mental disorders in adults who are 60 years of age and older.

Geriatric psychiatrists undergo massive specialty training. They are capable of addressing many late-life psychiatric syndromes and mental health conditions that affect older adults such as 

​At our hospital, we provide comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic services

  • To both OP and IP patients for various emotional, behavioral, and cognitive problems in adults who are 60 years of age and above. We also liaison with other specialties to manage mild to moderate medical comorbidities co-occurring in this  elderly who has psychological issues.

  • Om Hospital team is capable of addressing a wide variety of psychological illness
    that commonly occur in the elderly

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Dementia along with Behavioral and psychological disorders associated with
    dementia (BPSD)

    • Alzheimer’s dementia

    • Frontotemporal dementia

    • Vascular and mixed dementia

    • Lewy body dementia

  • Delirium

  • Late life psychosis

  • Mood disorders

  • Psychoses

  • Alcohol and substance abuse 

  • Personality disorders 

  • Sleep disturbances

  • Neuropsychiatric complications from stroke

  • Neuropsychiatric complications from other medical illness

The most common psychiatric illnesses in the elderly population are:

  •  Depression & Anxiety disorders.
  •  Late onset psychosis & mood Disorders.
  •  DEMENTIA or Neurocognitive disorders such as
    1. Alzheimer’s disease
    2. Vascular and mixed dementias
    3. Frontotemporal Dementia
    4. Lewy body dementia
  • Parkinson’s disease and its psychological manifestations.
  • DELIRIUM.
  • Other neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative disorders.
  •  Organic brain diseases.
  •  Neuropsychiatric complications from stroke and multiple sclerosis.